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#1

“We dream of carving our dragon.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

#2

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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#3

“We are pack!”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

tags: fitzchivalry-farseer, nighteyes, pack, wolf

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#4

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

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#5

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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#6

“Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

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#7

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

tags: assassin-s-apprentice, dogs, farseer, grief, love, pets, robin-hobb

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#8

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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#9

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

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#10

“You always chose to be bound by who you are. Now choose to be freed by who you are.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

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#11

“I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

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#12

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

tags: fate, longing, philosophy, poison, present, today, tomorrow

322 likes

#13

“Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

tags: riddles, time

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#14

“Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

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#15

“if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

tags: love

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#16

“Maybe some stories were like jarred butterflies, I thought, fluttering free as soon as someone broke the glass.”
― Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

tags: fiction, story, storytelling

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#17

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

tags: family, home

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